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Dialogues: a Collection of Creative Conversations

Dialogues is an ongoing series of fictional conversations that can be read online* or on your phone using the Medium app (see end of this page for how to download and use the app).

Synopsis: Dialogues: a Collection of Creative Conversations. A standoff with Bigfoot, an epidemic of serial killers, crossing a busy and blood-spattered road, men leaving their wives for artificial intelligence dating apps—these are just a few of the dialogical short stories you’ll find in this new collection by Randal Eldon Greene. Dialogues is currently being published on Medium as a weekly series you can read online for free.

These dialogue-style conversations are equally influenced by the short fiction of Donald Barthelme and Plato’s dialogical explorations of ideas presented through the mouthpiece of Socrates. But, despite the influence of these two philosophical giants, don’t expect any direct philosophy or even erudite characters to be the norm. These are conversations. They’re rough and tumble, written without an end in mind, flowing where they will, landing wherever the dialogue wishes to land. Nevertheless, I think you’ll find they are still doing the important work of exploring ideas like Plato did (through dialogue) and as Barthelme did (through experimental stories).

This weekly series will continue through 2018. A book version of these same dialogues is being planned for sometime in 2019/2020.

Click the image to be taken to the dialogues. For mobile users, instructions on how to use the app are below.

*Note for reading in a web browser: some browsers will ask that you “read on a larger screen” when it comes to series. This is an EASY FIX. Simply zoom out a bit, or you can go full screen. Either option works. F11 on most PC keyboards is a great shortcut for going full screen and back. Hitting the control (Ctrl) key while using the scroll wheel on your mouse is the easiest method for zooming in and out (assuming you have a mouse and it has a scroll wheel).

If you want to read the series using the Mobile app, just follow the link and download the Medium.com app from Apple’s App Store or from Google Play. You’ll sign up with an account. You can sign up with Google, Twitter, Facebook, or use email.

Once you’re downloaded and signed in, the app should direct you to the series. If it doesn’t, you can find my series at Medium.com/@authorgreene or by searching Randal Eldon Greene or the name of this series in the app.

Now that you’ve got my series pulled up, you’ll want to subscribe to notifications, that way you’ll be notified whenever I post the next dialogue (I’d also suggest signing up for my mailing list since I also get published outside of Medium occasionally). Like many phone apps, you’ll scroll up to make the menu visible. There will be a drop down symbol under which you’ll find the option to subscribe to the series.

Note that even if you follow me on Medium (if you do, thank you), you won’t get notifications about series updates. Each series on the Medium app has to be subscribed to separately. At least that’s how it worked last time I helped someone sign up.

To navigate the series, simply swipe right to move forward. Left to go backwards. The app saves your progress through the series so you won’t have to re-read with every new addition or read it all at once if you happen to not be following this series from the beginning.